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1 REPORT DOCUWIENTATION PAGE Form Approved 0MB No The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of infomnation. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of infomiation, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Department of Defense, Executive Service Directorate ( ). Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of infonnation if it does not display a curtently valid 0MB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ORGANIZATION. 1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-yyVX) REPORT TYPE Final Technical Report 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Optics, Acoustics and Stress in a Nearshore Bottom Nepheloid Layer DATES COVERED (From - To) a. CON TRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER N c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Dr. Paul S. Hill 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Dalhousie University Research Services PO Box Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Office of Naval Research 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACR0NYIV1{S) 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S) 12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Distribution approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT The attenuation of light near the seabed in the coastal ocean is affected by the concentration, size and composition of suspended particuiate mass. Our research demonstrated that the effect of size is reduced considerably by the packaging of suspended particles into particle aggregates for which particle mass scales with particle area rather than with particle volume. Reduced sensitivity to size makes light attenuation a usefiil proxy for suspended particuiate mass in many environments. Variation is the attenuation to mass ratio, however, does exist among and between environments, however, and the source of the variation remains unclear. Our research demonstrated that, on average, variable particle composition accounts for a factor of two variation in the beam attenuation to mass ratio, which does not fully explain observed variation. This finding indicated that particle packing geometry determines the light scattering properties of particles. Initial analysis of an optical proxy for particle packing geometry showed some promise. 15. SUBJECT TERMS aggregation, flocculation, light attenuation, sediment, sediment transport, coastal oceanography, bottom boundary layer, nepheloid layer 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: a. REPORT b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE u u u 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT uu 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 7 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON Paul S. Hill 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (Include area code) Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 Adobe Professional 7.0
2 FINAL REPORT: OPTICS, ACOUSTICS AND STRESS IN A NEARSHORE BOTTOM NEPHELOID LAYER Pauls. Hill Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University 1355 Oxford Street P.O. Box Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA B3H 4R2 phone: (902) fax: (902) paul.hill@dal.ca Grant Number: N LONG-TERM GOALS The goal of this research was to develop greater understanding of how the flocculation of finegrained sediment responds to turbulent stresses and how this packaging of sediment affects optical and acoustical properties in the water column. OBJECTIVES APPROACH 1. Quantify the effects of aggregation dynamics on the size distribution of particles in the bottom boundary layer; 2. Quantify how changes in particle packaging affect the optical and acoustical properties of the water column. 3. Develop models describing the associations between particle aggregation, stress, and the acoustical and optical fields. The approach was to obtain measurements that permitted comparisons of temporal evolution of bottom stress, suspended particle size, and optical and acoustical properties in the bottom boundary layer. The instrumentation was mounted on bottom tripods. Our Modified IN Situ Size and Settling Column Tripod (MINSSECT) was deployed multiple times in four different field years to measure optical beam attenuation, suspended particulate mass and particle size distributions. The MESfSSECT was instrumented with a Sequoia Scientific LISST-lOOx Type B laser particle sizer and a Digital Floe Camera (DEC) to measure a range of particle diameters from approximately 2 )am to 4 cm. The LISST also measured the beam attenuation coefficient, Cp. Size-versus-settiing-velocity measurements were made with a digital video camera that imaged a slab of fluid in a settling column. These measurements were used to estimate particle density as a fianction of particle size, which in turn allowed estimation of suspended particulate mass (SPM) based on particle size distributions measured with the LISST and DEC. MINSSECT had an in situ water filtration system (McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. Phytoplankton Sampler) for direct measurements of SPM concentration. All instruments were aoimxx^of^
3 mounted so the centers of the measuring volumes were located 1.2 m above the sea bed. Optical and acoustical properties of the water column were measured by Emmanuel Boss' group from University of Maine, and turbulence in the boundary layer was characterized by John Trowbridge at Woods Hole. Colleague Chris Sherwood assumed responsibility for incorporating our results into models of the particle size distribution in a bottom boundary layer. Hill collaborated closely with Brent Law and Tim Milligan for Bedford Institute of Oceanography on this project. Law, Milligan, and Hill had responsibility for the MINSSECT. John Newgard (Dal) and Vanessa Page (BIO) provided support in the lab and field. Undergraduate Honours student Alex Hurley coihpleted his thesis on a potential new proxy for suspended particle bulk density and now is an MSc student at Dalhousie. As mentioned, we collaborated with Emmanuel Boss (UMaine) and John Trowbridge (WHOI) on this project. Boss was responsible for all optical and acoustical characterization of the water column. He has also conducted laboratory manipulations of the particle size distribution in order to explore the effect on optical attenuation. Boss and Hill have worked together on an optical model of marine aggregates. John Trowbridge was responsible for characterizing the stress in the bottom boundary layer during the deployments. We worked with Chris Sherwood from the USGS in Woods Hole on incorporation of our results into the Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS). We worked with Dave Bowers at the University of Bangor in Wales to examine the effect of particle composition on optical properties. WORK COMPLETED Work on this project focused on four areas. First, we gathered and analyzed a data set on particle size at MVCO. Second, with data on particle composition firom Dave Bowers at the University of Bangor in Wales, we investigated the quantitative effect of component particle composition on cp:spm. Third, with 2011 and 2007 field data, we investigated the accuracy of the ratio of Cp to suspended particle volume as a proxy for suspended particle bulk density. Finally, we continued work on developing a simple model of the distribution of mass among size classes in suspension. RESULTS Our data set collected in September and October 2011 supported our previous finding that over a range of environmental conditions, the conversion from SPM to optical properties is more predictable than the theory that assumes constant-density particles suggests. Particle size only accounts for a factor of 2 in variability, much smaller than the order-of-magnitude hypothesized for decades. The broad conclusion that can be drawn fi-om our work is that particle and optical properties are easier to predict when the stress on the seabed is adequate to resuspend particles. When stresses are too low to resuspend sediment, biology and chemistry determine the concentration, composition, and size of particles in suspension, so biology and chemistry therefore determine optical properties. When stress grows large enough to resuspend particles, however, particle and optical properties are more closely linked to physical forcing, which is
4 fundamentally more predictable. As well, the composition of particles becomes more uniform with increasing stress (Hill et al., 2011). A corollary of our result that particle size only accounts for a fraction of the observed variability in Cp-.SPMis that particle composition must cause this ratio to vary. Unknown, however, is how much variability particle composition is likely to produce. If composition varies independently from particle packing geometry within aggregates, then a 2x range in variability is expected. Altematively, if composition affects particle packing geometry, then a greater than 2x range in variability is possible. We did not collect data on compositional variability in this project, but Dave Bowers at University of Bangor routinely measures mineral and organic fractions in SPM. Analysis of a subset of his data indicated that composition is not correlated with particle packing geometry, so particle composition produces a factor of 2 variability in Cp.-SPM (Figure 1, Hill et al, 2013; Bowers et al., 2014). Size and composition together cannot explain observed variability in Cp:SPM, leaving particle density as the last particle property to examine. Particle density in suspension typically is estimated first by isolating a suspension in a settling column in which turbulence has been damped and then measuring particle size and settling velocity (e.g., Fennessy et al., 1994; Hill et al., 1998; Hill et al., 2011). With size and settling velocity, it is possible to invert Stokes Law to estimate particle density. This method is effective, but it is invasive, requiring that some of the suspension be isolated in the unnatural envirorraient of a settling column for periods of minutes. It is also labor-intensive, and the custom equipment used to carry out such measurements is found in only a few laboratories around the globe. Thus, the routine measurement of particle density at high temporal resolution has not been possible. During fall and winter of , Dalhousie Earth Sciences student Alex Hurley undertook a preliminary investigation of a potential new method for estimating particle bulk density in suspension for his undergraduate Honors thesis. Using observations from our 2007 and 2011 OASIS deployments, Alex used a LISST-lOOx Type B and a digital floe camera (DFC) to estimate sediment mass and volume concentrations in suspension. He estimated sediment mass by making it proportional to the particulate beam attenuation coefficient, and he estimated total sediment volume concentration by merging the size distributions of the LISST and DFC (cf. Hill et al., 2011). With these variables he estimated sediment bulk density in suspension. Alex also used size-settling velocity data from our digital video camera (DVC) to estimate bulk density with the conventional method described above. Alex's comparison of the two methods, dubbed the "LD method" (for LISST and DFC) and the "DVC method" (for the DVC), produced conflicting results between the two years (Figure 2). In 2007 there was no agreement between the methods. The LD method produced bulk density estimates substantially higher than the DVC method. In 2011, the two methods produced similar density estimates. The source of the discrepancy in the density comparisons between years is due to systematically lower volume estimates by the DFC in The reason that the DFC imaged less volume in 2007 is unclear. We have formulated 3 hypotheses:
5 The difference in volume estimates between years is real. The DVC method has a lower limit of resolution of-250 jam, so it is biased toward larger, lower density aggregates. If the suspension in 2007 was dominated by smaller particles, then the DVC method would yield unrealistically low bulk densities. The DFC images in 2007 were degraded by absorption by dissolved substances in the water column, causing the image analysis to underestimate particle volume. The particles in 2007 had refi-active indexes closer to that of water in 2007, making the particles less visible to the image analysis software. We examined these hypotheses with OASIS data and data from other studies. The analysis showed support for the first hypothesis. This research is being written up by Hurley, who was supported to continue this work by another grant.. We used our observations of flocculated size distributions and their response to stress to implement and test models that convert predictions of suspended particulate mass into predictions of the optical properties in bottom boundary layers. Brent Law initiated this work as a final project in a modeling class at Dalhousie in Chris Sherwood has coded the model in MatLab. OSS (g itit 6 0 MSS (g m'' Figure 1. Area concentration in suspension versus organic suspended sediment concentration (OSS) and mineral suspended sediment concentration (MSS). Data from Dave Bowers were collected in a range of coastal environments. The plane shows the best fit linear regression of area concentration on OSS and MSS. If particle composition is uncorrelated with the packing geometry of floes, then the ratio of the regression coefficient for OSS to the regression coefficient for MSS should be approximately equal to 2. The observed ratio is This result suggests that compositional variability accounts only for a 2x range of variability in the Cp:SPM ratio.
6 o 2011 'E 1060 > 1040 Q Q ^ti^'w'^*j+^ p, n c^g '^' ) ^D Figure 2. Comparison of bulk density of particles in suspension estimated with two different methods with data from two different OASIS deployments. Estimates from the LD method are plotted on the x axis, and estimates from the D VC method are on the y axis. The 2007 estimates (red crosses) do not follow the 1:1 line shown in black, indicating that the two estimates of bulk density are different. The 2011 estimates (blue circles) do follow the 1:1 line, indicating that the estimates are consistent with one another. IMPACT/APPLICATIONS The high-resolution time series of particle, optical, and acoustical properties has enhanced understanding of the rates and mechanisms by which the water column clears following storm events. The development of a floe module for CSTMS has enabled the implementation of a module that converts sediment to optical properties. The latter advance will provide the sedimentology community with a simple tool to test their model predictions against the most ubiquitous measurement of suspended matter in coastal waters, and it will lead to prediction of in-water optical properties based on predictions of seabed stress. RELATED PROJECTS Hill obtained NSERC funding in Canada to purchase of the LISST-100 on the MINSSECT. Hill, Milligan and Law are funded by another Littoral Sciences project to investigate depositional and erosional fluxes on tidal flats. As part of that work, we measured particle size, particle mass, particle settling velocities, optical attenuation, and seabed stress. Law has research into particle transport around aquaculture sites funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This project funded the purchase of another LISST. Observations made as part of the RIVET DRI are similar to OASIS measurements. They will help to broaden our understanding of the links between particle and optical properties.
7 Hill and Law conducted a study similar to the Willapa Bay study on a tidal flat in the macro-tidal Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy. This work is supported by Nova Scotia through Offshore Environmental and Energy Research (OEER, now OERA). The results from this work augment o\ir understanding of the variables that affect the transformation from optical properties to suspended sediment mass. Hill was fimded by ONR to continue Hurley's work on a proxy for apparent bulk density of particles. That work is nearing completing with a manuscript and MSc thesis in preparation. REFERENCES Bowers, D. G., P. S. Hill, and K. M. Braithwaite, The effect of particulate organic content on the remote sensing of marine suspended sediments. Remote Sensing of the Envrionment, 144: Fennessy, M. J.; K. R. Dyer; and D. A. Huntley (1994), INSSEV: An instrument to measure the size and settling velocity of floes in situ. Marine Geology, 117: Hill, P. S., J. P., E. A. Cowan, and R. D. Powell, (1998), In situ observations of floe settiing velocities in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Marine Geology, 145: Hill, P. S., D. G. Bowers and K. M. Braithwaite, The effect of suspended particle composition on particle area-to-mass ratios in coastal waters. Methods in Oceanography, 7: ,. Hill, P. S., E. Boss, J. P. Newgard, B. A. Law, and T. G. Milligan (2011), Observations of the sensitivity of beam attenuation to particle size in a coastal bottom boundary layer, J. Geophys. Research, 116, C02023, doi: /2010JC PUBLICATIONS Bowers, D. G., P. S. Hill, and K. M. Braithwaite, The effect of particulate organic content on the remote sensing of marine suspended sediments, Remote Sensing of the Envrionment, 144: , [published, refereed]. Hill, P. S., E. Boss, J. P. Newgard, B. A. Law, and T. G. Milligan, Observations of the sensitivity of beam attenuation to particle size in a coastal bottom boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C02023, doi: /2010jc006539, [published, refereed]. Hill, P. S., D. G. Bowers and K. M. Braithwaite, The effect of suspended particle composition on particle area-to-mass ratios in coastal waters, Methods in Oceanography, 7: , [published, refereed]. Hurley, A. J., Assessing Two Methods for Estimating Bulk Density of Particles in Suspension, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Dalhousie University, [unpublished].
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